Bulbapedia:Spoiler warning

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Borrowed from wp:Wikipedia:Spoiler warning, please rewrite.


Some articles may contain spoilers. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, or video game) that may reduce your enjoyment of it by revealing certain plot events or twists. If you haven't read or seen the work the warning refers to, you might want to do so before reading the spoiler in the article.

Suggested template

Not all visitors may recognise the site as an encyclopedia, which should strive first to informative, spoilers or not. The article should also contain analyses and background detail not available—or at least, not obvious—in the work being critiqued. Where this is the case, a spoiler notice should be made prominent as a simple courtesy.

The standard way to warn readers of potential spoilers is to insert before the revealing text:

{{spoilers}} 

This expands to:

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Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
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If this general purpose template is not suitable for the particular article you are working on, feel free to custom-design your own warning, but please link back to this page.